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BUTTON TRIMMING.

No. 360,329. Patented Mar. 29, 1887.

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CARL SEEL, OF BARMEN, PRUSSIA, GERMANY.

BUTTON-TRIMMING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 360,329, dated March 29, 1887.

Application filed November 27, 1856. Serial No. 220,014. (No model.) Patented in France May 28, 1886, No.163,673, and August To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL SEEL, of the firm of GEBRiiDER SEEL, of the town of Barmen, Rhenish Prussia, Germany, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Button-Trimmings, (for which I have received Letters Patent in France, May 28, 1886, No. 163,673, and August 24, 1886, No. 165,372,) of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to that class of trimmings for which Letters Patent of the United States were granted to me October 12, 1886, No. 350,7 74.

The object of my present invention is to so construct the buttons used in the manufacture of the trimming as to preserve a fixed position in relation to each other without overlapping, for the adaptation of the trimming to a curvilinear or other figure; to which end it consists in the novel features hereinafter described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a face View, and Fig. 2 a rear view, of one of the buttons. Fig. 8 rep resents a face view, and Fig. 4 a rear view, of the trimming. Fig. 5 represents a cross-section of the button on a larger scale than in the previous figures. Fig. 6 represents a simi lar section thereof, showing a modification.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The letter A designates a series of buttons, the faces of which may be of any desired material and ornamented in any desired manner; and B, a flexible strand wherebysaid buttons are connected together to form a trimming. Said flexible strand B may be composed of wire, thread, or other suitable material, and it passes through a central eye, (I, and through elongated loops 6 6, arranged diametrically opposite to each other upon the back 0 of each button in such a manner that the series of buttons are in a corresponding plane, one impinging against the other upon the circumference. The position of the loops 0 e is upon the periphery of the buttons, respectively, and both loops are curved in a line concentric with the periphery of the button, the latter being of circular shape. By this construction of the buttons the trimming article obtains the characteristic quality that it may be put on the object which it is meant to decorate in a straight or in any curved line without the strand B of thread, 850., on which the buttons are mounted being visible at the front of the trimming. This peculiar quality of my triniming is due to the fact that every single button of a whole row or series is capable of moving along the circumference of the adjacent buttons as far as it is necessary to form a curvilinear figure, without requiring that one button overlap the other and cover ,it partly or wholly, or that one be separated from the other.

The length of the strand B, on which the buttons are mounted, will always be equal to the length of the sum of the diameters of all the buttons of the trimmings, and the points of deflection from one direction to the other of the line will always be in the axial line, or nearly so, of the respective buttons, due to the play afforded by the loops e c.

It is evident that, according to the requirements for curvilinear figures of larger or smaller radius, which are to be formed by the trimming, the loops 6 0 may take up a longer or shorter part of the circumference of the buttons. It is also evident that said loops may be made in various ways, dependent upon the material of which the buttons are made. They may be cut or molded into the material of the button if the same is solid, as shown in Fig. 6, and if the button is hollow and put together of various pieces the loops may be formed by a punching-machine. The central eyes or passages, (I, may also be made in various ways and of various material. They may be like the eye of an ordinary button, like a bunch or teat, as with cloth buttons, or like a ball or bulb formed by pressing down the sheet metal of which the bottom part of a button may be made and boring through.

\Vhat I claim is 1. A button for dress-trimmings, having its back constructed with a central eye and with elongated loops diametrically opposite each other for mounting said buttons on a flexible strand, substantially as shown and described.

2. Adisk-shaped button fordress trimming, having its back constructed with elongated loops concentric with the periphery of the buton and at points diametrically opposite each other, substantially as shown and described, In testimony whereof I have hereunto set for the purpose set forth. my hand in the presence of two subscribing 3; A dress-trimming in which are combined witnesses. a series of buttons, each having its back con- 5 structed with a central eye and with loops dia- CARL SEEL.

metrically opposite each other, and a flexible I strand of wire or other suitable material pass- Witnesses:

ing through said eye and through both loops MAX LERGON,

for connecting the buttons together, substan- OARnHtissELR-ATH.

1o tially as shown and described. 

